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MELAceucA NERIFOLIA. OLEANDER- 
LEAVED MELALEUCA. 
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PoLyADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA. 
Generic CharaGer. 
Cal. 5-partitus, femifuperus. Cor. 5-petala. Filamenta multa, 
connata in 5 corpora. Stylus1. Cap/. femivettita, g-locularis, — 
Specific Characfer. 
MELALEUCA ueriifelia ; foliis oppofitis lanceolatis acutis 
uninerviis, petiolis decurrentibus, pedunculis 
axillaribus trichotomis, filamentis corolla bre- 
vioribus. 
 Descr. Stem fhrubby, upright, branched: branches fub- 
alate. Leaves oppofite, lanceolate, acute, rigid, fubmarginate, 
quite entire, fmooth, pale on the under fide, perforate when 
held to the light with fmall pellucid dots, one-ribbed, with 
minute, tranfverfe, fimple veins, petiolated: petiole decurrent 
_ down the branch. Flowers bright yellow, in a trichotomous, 
panicle: peduncles {olitary, ereét, longer than petiole, fhorter 
= by two-thirds than leaf, hardly pubefcent: pedicles thorter 
than calyx. Braéfes 2, leaf-like, below the panicle. Calyx 
_ femifuperior, five-cleft : /eaflets ovate, concave, obtufe. Corolla 
 B-petaled: petals quite entire, ovate, obtufe, fpreading, in- 
ferted in the calyx. Stamens about 20: jilaments colleéled 
into five bundles, but hardly cohering, fcarcely fo long as the 
| petals, inferted into the calyx. Azthers globular. 
The leaves have very little of the aromatic tafte fo prevalent 
in moft {pecies of Melaleuca, but are aftringent and bitterifh,. 
iS ‘approaching the flavour of thofe of the Tea-Tree, 
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